Most of the world’s eyes are fixed upon the leaders who will congregate at Copenhagen, Denmark from next week onwards with regard to the climate and its change, but while the world leaders are busy discussing on a macro level on methods to save the earth from dying due to over-population and pollution, the working [...]

A new technology lets doctors test out procedures on a simulation of the patient’s anatomy.

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You wouldn’t fly on a commercial jet plane unless you were confident that the pilot had logged some serious time in a flight simulator, preparing for every eventuality. Someday it may be just as inconceivable to undergo delicate [...]

Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site.
It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights.
It also wanted USocial to stop helping members break the site's terms and conditions, specifically letting people profit from their profile.
In response, USocial agreed [...]

The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.

E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission.
An [...]

NOKIA 3720 CLASSIC MOBILE PHONE

Think you are hard on your mobile phone? Nokia’s 3720 is built to take it. Engineers incorporated stainless steel into the phone’s casing, locked the battery compartment with a screw, and sealed the case to protect against water and contaminants. During stress tests, the 3720 was pounded with weights and dropped [...]

The future of computing may depend on embracing the chaos that defines human thinking.

Kwabena Boahen’s love affair with digital computers began and ended in 1981, when he was 16.
Boahen lived outside the city of Accra in the West African nation of Ghana. His family’s sprawling block house stood in a quiet field of mango and [...]

 
Intel just held a press conference in which the company spoke about its next-generation server processor, currently code-named Nehalem-EX. As its name suggests, the Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture which debuted with the Xeon 5500 and Core i7 series processors. The Nehalem-EX series however, will be decidedly more high-end in terms of specifications [...]

The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most [...]

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop".
In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.\
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Yamaha's Tenori-on is a unique musical instrument that is pretty expensive with its rather hefty £800-plus price point, but good news to those who are interested – the Tenori-on Orange which will be released in time for Christmas will retail for a more affordable £649. Apart from that, the original Tenori-On will be receiving a [...]